Hi to you all out there, can somebody help me, I have just bought a small HD-DV camcorder which records and plays back OK on the camera itself but when I transfer the film to the computer the playback on the computer is not smooth flowing, the sound is OK but the film flows in a series of small jumps. Any idears? With Thanks, Ron C. West Oz

Hello Ron, Thursday, May 28, 2009, 8:38:39 AM, you wrote: RC> I have just bought a small HD-DV camcorder which records and plays RC> back OK on the camera itself but when I transfer the film to the RC> computer the playback on the computer is not smooth flowing, the RC> sound is OK but the film flows in a series of small jumps. Stuttering like this can be due to the PC not having enough 'Oomph' to play movies or a sign that the Hard Drive is badly fragmented so it cannot refill the playback buffer fast enough. Also some Anti-Virus programs can be a bit over-zealous and take too long scanning the movie file as it's been accessed. Turning off real time scanning will verify this but it's not a good idea to leave it off so treat this as only a 'test' to see if that's the issue. Some specifications of your PC might help, i.e. CPU speed, RAM, HD free space etc. I went through the posts from you but apart from picking up that you use WinXP there doesn't seem to be that other information. BTW - when you say playback on the PC have you copied the movie to the PC from the camcorder or does it use a DVD for saving and you are playing from that on the PC ? -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Xandros 4.0 Home Edition Premium